Space infrastructure now underpins communications, navigation, intelligence, security, and economic resilience around the world.
This campaign examines how governments and commercial partners are strengthening operational resilience in an increasingly contested and strategically important domain.
Podcast: Collateral Risk, Episode 1: Who Ultimately Bears the Risk?
Commercial satellites now support civilian life, global commerce, humanitarian work - and, in some cases, military operations. When those roles overlap, who ultimately bears the risk?
In the launch episode of Collateral Risk, SSPI Executive Director Tamara Bond-Williams speaks with Dr. Jessica West, Senior Researcher at Project Ploughshares, about the civilian consequences of disruption in space; why dual use is not one simple category; and the decisions companies and governments should settle before a crisis.
They discuss commercial obligations, government responsibility, contracts, information sharing, the Outer Space Treaty, UNOOSA, and debris prevention.
